Priest Item Enhancements - Best Per slot v.1.06

Post by OscarDivine

At first I was going to write a response on another thread about which professions would be good to level with, but I decided to break off and write a different kind of thread, which I hope can be more over-all beneficial to this forum. All responses are meant for ALL Specs of Priests in PVE only.

There are constantly posts about "which professions are best for priests" and I figure I can help avert these repeat threads by writing one simply about which enhancements (from single profession) are BEST in slot including all Enchants/Item Enhancements/Abilities across the game. I'd like this to be another "community effort" post, so if I write something incorrect (I'm BOUND to do so!) please chime in and I'll edit the post to make it more correct.

I'll preface these lists by saying that I did not include a few professions, here's why:

Alchemy - Better flasks, not gear-related. All enhancements you gain are independent of gear enhancements.
Leatherworking - Nothing from LW is of significant use to a Priest of any spec except for this.
Jewelcrafting - The bonuses from the gems can be placed in any item, making individual gear enhancement a non-issue, though this flexibility works quite well with a blacksmith, though the combination of the two still does not make it better than other combos..

So let's go one Slot at a time starting Head to Toe!

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Head:

Reputation Items - Kirin Tor, Wyrmrest

There are really only TWO CHOICES here, both are fine, depends on whether or not you're lacking in the mana regen department. Shadow and Disco will obviously want to choose Burning Mysteries, Holy may choose depending on needs, though I personally use Burning mysteries myself.

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Shoulders:

Reputation Items - Sons of Hodir
Inscription - Master's Inscriptions

Inscription is clearly the winner here. Aside from Hodir Rep rewards, the choice profession for shoulder enchants is Inscription. For mana regen, you'll use this.

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Back:

Enchanting - All sorts of goodies! Haste in Big and Small varieties. There is also a pretty mediocre regen option. The best of these options is 23 Haste.
Engineering - Springy Arachnoweave, (but who cares, we levitate!)
Tailoring - Lightweave, Darkglow

Tailoring wins on the back front (lol) hands down. The best-in-slot enhancements win for both spell OUTPUT in all specs as well as Mana REGEN.

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Chest:

Enchanting - Powerful Stats with other inferior options include Mana Restoration, and Super Stats

Regular enchanting as anybody would get is usually going to end up being Powerful Stats. No single profession does anything additional to the chest piece except Jewelcrafting, which can add in their Dragon's Eye gems to any socketed item.

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Wrist:

Blacksmithing - Additional Socket
Enchanting - Superior Spellpower, Major Spirit, Greater Stats, Greater Spellpower

The LW option is an excellent choice, however being the singular benefit we get from LW, it may not be the choice profession to seek.

Blacksmithing comes in second for this fight as the additional socket can stack on top of an enchantment, making it a wonderful choice for this slot.

For Standard Enchantment, Superior Spellpower remains the choice for all 3 specs.

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Hands:

Blacksmithing - Socket Gloves
Enchanting - two spell power, Precision (only if under hit cap), and Blasting
Engineering - Hyperspeed Accelerators

This is a topic which I have debated with other people and together we have concluded that the best profession enhancement for this slot is the Engineering Hyperspeed Accelerators. It averages to a static 68 haste rating if used on EVERY cooldown, which is absolutely AMAZING for all priest specs. This enchantment, like the tailoring cloak enhancements, are so far above the competition, it may even be worth it to some to take on engineering simply for this enhancement.

In a close second is Blacksmithing because of the Socket Gloves enhancement. You can stack on another enchantment as well.

Your other options for hand enchantment are the two spell power enchantments and Precision (only if under hit cap). You could also go for Blasting, but... why? Best of these, of course is 28 SP.

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Fingers:

Enchanting - Enchant Ring Awesomeness

Well, the ONLY profession that can even modify these slots is enchantment. They have excellent options!

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Belt:

This slot really doesn't gain anything additional that any other player can get as the eternal buckle is available to all players. The only profession that would gain in this slot would be Jewelcrafting from use of Dragon's Eye gem cuts.

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Legs:

Tailoring - Sancitifed Spellthread, Master's Spellthread

Tailoring wins this category simply because their leg enhancement costs them... 1g (if exalted). It is exactly the same stats as Brilliant Spellthread.

Your other choices include SP/Stam threads, neither of which is better for you than the above choices.

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Feet:

Enchanting - Icewalker, Greater Spirit, and Tuskarr's Vitality
Engineering - Nitro Boosts

Again, here, I'd have to give it to Engineering for their Nitro Boosts. Not only do you gain a great boost in Crit (higher than Icewalker), you have an incredible "Use" ability that gets you out of sticky situations! Really awesome to use on the Heroic Anub'rak fight!

Regarding Non-Profession-specific enchantments of choice, I would vote for Tuskarr's Vitality for most unless you're under hit-cap for Shadow, or like the extra regen (I do!) from the + Spirit boot enchant as Holy.

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Weapons:

Enchanting - See Below.

There really are no profession-specific weapon enchantments, but your choices are the following:

Might Spellpower - obviously best for 1H Weapons
Exceptional Spellpower
Staff ... More Spellpower - obviously best for 2H Weapons
Staff Spellpower
Black Magic

To my knowledge, the jury is still out on the debate on Black Magic for Shadow priests, though I suspect that 63/81 SP will still end up being superior.

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So. there we have it. head to Toe, individual item enhancements that I consider to be "Best-In-Slot" enhancements for Holy/Shadow/Disco priests.

Gathering Professions also have their advantages, but I think that the BEST combination of professions for end-game raiding is Tailoring + Engineering. Additionally, Engineering gives you Injectors, which increases the effectiveness of your mana pots! Great for any mana-users!

Please chime in with any additions, addenda, or modifications you would make to this list!

Post by OscarDivine

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Post by OscarDivine

I don't want to be rude, but instead of just putting the winner enchant could you put all new enchants/wotlk stuff. And then put them in order which is best and write in ( ) which is best. This would be very first guide which would be useful for people and i salute you for your work.

And i will remove this reply after is possible after the whole guide is done just to make it so clean and nice as possible.

Absolutely no!

by which I mean, don't remove your reply. ;-)

This is the point of this thread: to work as a forum community to create what we think will work best for our readers.

Now initially, I thought that I didn't want to add in all of the enchantments and enhancements because there are already threads on this in other areas of our forums, however, I do see your point in their usefulness here in this thread. I'll start adding in the ones that make sense!

Post by karlusdavius

it's, er, confusing.

Maybe you need to list things.

Shoulders

Reputation Rewards - Greater Inscription of the Storm, Greater Inscription of the Crag
Alchemy - N/A
Blacksmith - N/A
Jewelcrafting - N/A
Enchanting - N/A
Inscription - Master's Inscription of the Strom

You get the idea? Makes it a little more streamlined

Post by OscarDivine

Damnit Karl you just want me to work, don't you?

I figured I would just write up each category with the best option first, why it's the best option, then additional options. I think it makes sense to do it either way, and at the expense of having to completely re-format the post, which basically means a whole re-write with the same info... I'm going to leave it as it is unless I get more complaints about formatting. I will, however, make an effort to stream-line it some more for convenience.

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Post by OscarDivine

Socket Bracer/Gloves and Bracer/Glove Enchants are not mutually exclusive, so your bit about wrist enchants is confusing. Format is also confusing.

You've also missed weapon enchants.

See! that's one sucker punch to the gonads :P

Damnit fine... I'll get started on the re-formatting.

and I'll add in weapons. This is turning into a whole different kind of thread than I was initially driving towards. I wanted it to be for item enhancement by professions, not an overview of enchantments as a whole. but since we're going there...

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Post by OscarDivine

Alright the changes are in. I hope this helps someone. sometime.... someway

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Post by Aedalas

Feet:

Reputation Items - NA
Blacksmithing - Icewalker, Greater Spirit, and Tuskarr's Vitality
Enchanting - NA
Engineering - Nitro Boosts
Inscription - NA
Tailoring - NA

Enchants are listed under Blacksmithing here.

Since the vast majority of enchants are not profession specific, perhaps another category for general item enhancements available to anyone would help to clear up any possible confusion.

Nice work either way, but seems to be a rather large post due to all of the N/A's. I'd suggest simply removing anything that isn't used and maybe bold the best choice to make it stand out more.

Maybe something like this:

Shoulders:

Reputation Items - Sons of Hodir
Inscription - Master's Inscriptions

All of the same info is there, it just doesn't show anything that doesn't apply.

Post by OscarDivine

Well Geez I can't make EVERYONE happy! I originally didn't put these categories in, but by the request of two of our more vocal readers, I did, much to my resistance. I personally feel that much of the NA results are very redundant and pretty obvious.

edit: fix't the foot enchant fiasco.

Post by karlusdavius

now thats awesome.

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Post by Magnerz

Post by OscarDivine

Nice work so far...

I'm confused as to why you include alternative (often much cheaper) enchants, and yet don't list things like http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=57691, especially as its a 45 or 52 SP gain :)

Well gee, see this is why this has to be a community effort! I didn't know about those 'cause I don't have any LW toons. It is now editted, for your pleasure.

Priest Item Enhancements - Best Per slot v.1.06

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